Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Besides Baseball. By the time he got home that fall, Robin had begun to suspect that there might be something else besides playing ball. He asked his sister Nora if she knew any girls he might ask for a date. Nora fixed him up with a young grade-school teacher fresh from the University of Wisconsin, a pretty brunette named Mary Ann Kalnes. Mary had never seen a big-league game; Robin could talk only about baseball. So the happy couple went to the movies, where conversation is sometimes helpful but not compulsory. "We evidently got along," says Robin...
...many cases, cured, there is still much to be done in breaking down the fears of those who hide their symptoms rather than risk ostracism from society. The best estimates place current leprosy cases in the world at from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000, but some experts suspect that there may be as many as 20 million victims, most of them living in the torrid regions of southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America. The disease has been virtually stamped out in the temperate zones (the U.S. has no more than 1,000 cases, one-third...
Grace is well cast as the princess, and glides with shy detachment through the regal love affair, ever dressed in cool blue or white. After the first twenty minutes the audience begins to suspect that she is not acting...
Actually, one cannot help but suspect the motives of the Whig-Clio Society in asking Hiss to speak in the first place. While his comments on the Geneva Conference were undoubtedly interesting, his own position at Yalta was so unimportant as to make him anything but an expert on international conferences. More than anything else, Hiss was controversial, and all the hoopla surrounding the speech seems to be exactly what the Whig-Clios bargained...
Many Democrats may continue to suspect that acceptance of New Deal concepts by Republican leaders amount to no more than lip service. They may assert that agencies such as the Labor Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are administered by Republican appointees who do not believe in them, are in unsafe hands, and they will certainly point to the favoring of special interests...